Wade Ceramics

Wade Ceramics

Wade Ceramics Ltd. are a manufacturers of porcelain and earthenware. In the 1950s, the Wade potteries created "Whimsies," small solid porcelain animal figures first developed by Sir George Wade, which became popular and collectable in Britain and America.cite web
url = http://www.wade.co.uk/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
title = Welcome to Wade Ceramics Ltd |date =
author = Edward Duke
publisher = Wade Ceramics Ltd
accessdaymonth = 22 October|accessyear = 2007] cite web
url = http://www.thepotteries.org/people/wade_geo.htm
title = People of Stoke-on-Trent: George Wade |date = 2005-11-15
author =
publisher = thepotteries.org
accessdaymonth = 22 October|accessyear = 2007] Their other brand names of inexpensive collectable porcelain include, "TV Pets," "Whoppas," and "Minikins".cite web
url = http://www.thepotteries.org/people/wade_geo.htm
title = People of Stoke-on-Trent: George Wade |date = 2005-11-15
author =
publisher = thepotteries.org
accessdaymonth = 22 October|accessyear = 2007]

Over the years, Wade has produced many licensed pieces based on popular TV shows, comic books, Disney films, and more recently the Mr. Men books and Pokémon.

History

The company was established in 1810 by Henry Hallam and produced ceramic industrial fittings. The company moved to Burslem and it was taken over and called "Wade & Colclough" in 1867.cite web
url = http://www.whimsicalwades.com/whimseys.htm
title = "Whimsical Wades": The "Wades" Story"|date = 1998
author = Pat Murray.
accessdaymonth = 22 October|accessyear = 2007] John Wade started his own company in 1887 called "Wade & Co".cite web
url = http://www.whimsicalwades.com/whimseys.htm
title = "Whimsical Wades": The "Wades" Story"|date = 1998
author = Pat Murray.
accessdaymonth = 22 October|accessyear = 2007]

By the 1940s there were three Wade pottery factories owned by brothers William, Albert J and George Wade, who were John Wade's three nephews. A fourth factory was started in the 1950s in Ireland.

Following the death of Sir George Wade in 1986 at the age of 94 years and the death of his son George Anthony (Tony) Wade of Leukaemia in 1987, the Wade potteries were taken over by Beauford Plc in 1998 and were renamed "Wade Ceramics Ltd". In early 1990s the Irish pottery factory was re-named "Seagoe Ceramics" and was closed down.cite web
url = http://www.wadeireland.co.uk/about.asp
title = About Wade Ireland|date =
author =
accessdaymonth = 22 October|accessyear = 2007]

Beauford Plc's pottery factories were taken over by a management buyout in 1999 becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of "Wade Allied Holdings Ltd".cite web
url = http://www.wade.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=27&Itemid=52
title = Wade Ceramics: About us|date = 2005-03-21
author = Edward Duke|publisher = Wade Ceramics Ltd
accessdaymonth = 22 October|accessyear = 2007]

References

External links

* [http://www.wade.co.uk/ Official website of Wade Ceramics, Ltd.]


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